At the moment, I just finished fermentation on my fourth 4bbl batch. I have a couple of issues I am trying to address. Forgive me if this is not in the right spot.
Issue #1 - General glycol chiller performance. We just can't seem to get our brite tank to do a good crash. Best we have achieved is 38F on the brite. That being said, I cannot get my fermenter to cool below about 40F either. After some adjustments to our tubing, our glycol maintains 23 to 24 degrees with no problem. As an additional note, we seem to lose 10 degrees going to the brite tank, even though the line run is only 12 feet or so--17 if you include the run of line up the wall to the ceiling and the lines are insulated. Our chiller is 5,500 BTU running two fermenters and a brite tank.
Issue #2 - Beer will not clear. My beers are a soupy-milkshake looking mess that would make an NEIPA fan salivate. Moving from the home level (where my beers would clear with no problem at 66F), I knew I would have to cold crash--but this lack of flocculation is ridiculous. Similar to my brite tank issue above, I can only get fermenters down to about 40--I just expected better settling. Most recent beer that won't clear is using nottingham.
Can someone give me a hand here?
Issue #1 - General glycol chiller performance. We just can't seem to get our brite tank to do a good crash. Best we have achieved is 38F on the brite. That being said, I cannot get my fermenter to cool below about 40F either. After some adjustments to our tubing, our glycol maintains 23 to 24 degrees with no problem. As an additional note, we seem to lose 10 degrees going to the brite tank, even though the line run is only 12 feet or so--17 if you include the run of line up the wall to the ceiling and the lines are insulated. Our chiller is 5,500 BTU running two fermenters and a brite tank.
Issue #2 - Beer will not clear. My beers are a soupy-milkshake looking mess that would make an NEIPA fan salivate. Moving from the home level (where my beers would clear with no problem at 66F), I knew I would have to cold crash--but this lack of flocculation is ridiculous. Similar to my brite tank issue above, I can only get fermenters down to about 40--I just expected better settling. Most recent beer that won't clear is using nottingham.
Can someone give me a hand here?
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